The DMRtian Chronicles, 10/3/2021
This week: Clark Ashton Smith, Michael Moorcock, Schuyler Hernstrom, Brom, Tarzan, Black Sabbath (the film), and more.
Read MoreItalo Calvino's Retelling of "The Sorceress's Head"; Keys of Absurdism, Artifice, Expressionism and Symbolism (Part Two)
If monsters existed, would they be works of nature? If those who wrote or read the folktale believed in the monsters and the magic happenings, are those constructs artificial? A challenge occurs when reexamining or modernizing folklore.
Read MoreItalo Calvino's Retelling of "The Sorceress's Head"; Keys of Absurdism, Artifice, Expressionism and Symbolism (Part One)
Storytelling and folktales have been with human beings for a long time. The superior folktale is that which is touched by both the fantastical and the frightful. These kinds are the tales that get retold and transformed again and again, especially by those who yearn to feel and dwell upon the macabre and the decadent and the most astonishing, heightened emotions brought on by elements of the grotesque and the sublime.
Read MoreMoorcock’s Missed Elric Opportunity
I’ve often wondered, why hasn’t Michael Moorcock’s sword-and-sorcery fiction ever been adapted to the silver screen? It could have been. Moorcock was approached by the likes of filmmaker Ralph Bakshi for an adaptation of Elric. This would have been circa 1978.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 9/26/2021
This week: Fritz Leiber, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Frazetta, Talbot Mundy, Alien, Poe, Ramsey Campbell and more.
Read MoreArthur Gilchrist Brodeur: Scholar and Skald
Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur loved the ‘Northern Thing’, writing pulp tales of the North while also translating The Prose Edda.
Read MoreReview: The Thief Who Went to War by Michael McClung
Amra has led a hard life. Her childhood was a crucible. Death, a silent companion. She was forged into the person she is. Hard and tough as nails but not inhuman. Practical with a tenacity to spit in the Devil's face and give him the finger.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 9/19/2021
This week: Conan news, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Hawkmoon, Lord Dunsany, Harold Lamb, Witchfinder General, Simon of Gitta, and more.
Read MoreThe Savage Swords of Joe Kubert
Joe Kubert would've turned ninety-five today. Beloved all across the comics spectrum both for his artwork and personality, Joe was also a landmark figure in the history of sword-and-sorcery in comics.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 9/12/2021
This week: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lovecraft, dinosaurs, Solomon Kane, Poe, samurai flicks, A. Merritt, Margaret Brundage, and more.
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